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Who’s there?

I’m looking for an old friend

I heard about a booking, nice little theater,

good up-and-coming magician - You’re back

It’s good to see you, John

Good rehearsal space

Blind stagehands, I like it

You always had a good eye for publicity

I need your help, John

It’s my last show A limited engagement

Your last show?

A wise man once told me obsession was a young man’s game

I’m almost done There’s one thing left

The Real Transported Man

You want to design a show around it?

I don’t want you backstage I need you in front managing

Call in any favors or connections you have left

to get us the right booking

What sort of booking you after?

The sort that Borden can’t ignore

Oh, what an honor it is to see you again, sir

You told me you only wanted to show me one trick that’d pique my interest

It’s a very clever trick - Pleased to meet you, Mr Ackerman

Likewise, I’m sure Let’s get on, shall we?

Turn it on, gentlemen

Very pretty

That’s it, Cutter, He simply disappears?

That’s not a trick He has to come back

There has to be a - A prestige?

Exactly

Pardon me

It’s very rare to see

real magic

It’s been many years since

Are you interested in helping us?

Yes but you’ll have to dress it up a little

Disguise it

Give them enough reason to doubt it

You haven’t spoken about her, Freddie, not once

Why would I talk about her to you, hm?

Because she was a part of your life and now she’s gone

You know, the day before she killed herself she said she wanted to meet me

That she had something to tell me about you

I was such a coward, I couldn’t bring myself to face her

But

what would she have said?

You want to know the truth about me?

The truth is that

I never loved Sarah

I never loved her

You married her, you had a child with her

Yes Part of me Part of me did, but

the other part didn’t

The part that found you, the part that’s sitting here right now

I love you No, Olivia, I love you

That’s the truth

That is the truth that matters

You could be in some other restaurant with some other woman right now,

talking about me that way

No - Yes

It’s inhuman to be so cold

He’s back

After two years, he’s got a new trick

They’re saying it’s the best London’s ever seen

You should see the look on your face, Professor

You should go to him

You two deserve each other

But I’m afraid I’m booked The Moscow Ballet plays through next year

Then get rid of them There will be 100 performances, no more, no less

Five performances a week, no matinees

That’s what you’ll charge for each ticket Good day

Ladies and gentlemen, my first trick of the evening involves considerable risk

Anyone in the audience

who would be irrevocably damaged by seeing a man drown

should leave now

When I tell you the lady who taught me this illusion

actually died performing it,

you’ll understand the seriousness of the dangers involved

Let’s begin

In my travels, I have seen the future

And it is a strange future, indeed

The world, ladies and gentlemen, is on the brink of new and terrifying possibilities

What you’re about to witness is not magic

It’s purely science

I’d like to invite you to come up on stage now

so that you can examine the machine for yourselves

Man’s reach exceeds his imagination

Bravo!

One hundred performances Why?

Does his method dictate that?

Is it a publicity move, What is it?

He’s a no-talent magician, and they call him

the bloody best in England Why?

Fifty yards in a second, In a second!

And all that we know is he uses a trap door

Brilliant, What is going on under that stage, Huh?

Why can’t you out-think him?

They do this every night, after each performance Yeah?

Huh

We’re done

All right?

Let him have his trick

I don’t need his secret

So

don’t go back there, you leave him alone

Both of us just leave him alone

We’re done